The longtime Chicago playwright joins a new mini-renaissance of aural drama. In Willy Russell's 1980 play Educating Rita, the title character (a working-class hairdresser taking Open University literature courses in London) responds to the question "Suggest how you might resolve the staging difficulties inherent in a production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt" with "Do it on the radio." Debates and …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 02:40PM on March 5, 2021